The knocker-upper was a professional who emerged and persisted during the Industrial Revolution when alarm clocks were expensive and unreliable. By the 1940s and 1950s, this occupation had largely ...

A knocker-upper at work in 1947 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. A knocker-upper at work in 1947 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Technology has eliminated many jobs over the years. Buggy-whip makers have been ...

It wasn't until the beginning of the 1920s that alarm clocks became readily available, in any kind of reliable form, so how was it that the hard-working people of Ireland and Britain managed to get up ...